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State Farm Enlists New Faces for Its Annual Football Ritual
Advertising

State Farm Enlists New Faces for Its Annual Football Ritual

The arrival of a new National Football League season means, among other things, the arrival of new commercials from the insurers and beer makers and wireless carriers who spend lavishly to reach the television audience that professional football still reliably delivers.

Hightouch Hires Google Veteran to Build Agency Relationships
Advertising

Hightouch Hires Google Veteran to Build Agency Relationships

The phrase "agency whisperer" has always suggested a certain kind of magic — the ability to translate between the dialects of holding company executives and technology platform salespeople, two groups who need each other desperately and understand each other imperfectly.

Fanta Builds a Haunted House It Hopes Will Stand Year-Round
Advertising

Fanta Builds a Haunted House It Hopes Will Stand Year-Round

The line between selling soft drinks and producing entertainment has been blurring for some time now, but Fanta, the Coca-Cola-owned brand best known for its orange soda and its reliable presence in Halloween candy aisles, has decided to step through the looking glass entirely.

The Fake Doctor Will See You Now
Digital

The Fake Doctor Will See You Now

The advertising industry has spent decades refining the art of the testimonial, that most elemental form of persuasion in which a person of apparent credibility looks into a camera and says, in effect, "Trust me." Now it appears that artificial intelligence has mastered the form so thoroughly that e